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Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

Episode 288: It’s in the air

Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

I Like To Make Stuff

Design, Crafts, Leisure, How To, Arts, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto talk about jeans, ideas and copying. What We’re Working On Jimmy Diresta: Working on the truck David Picciuto: Waiting to release the 808 table Bob Clagett: Made an adjustable arm light for the machine area Links: Pierre Jeanneret Chair What we’re watching: David’s Pick of the Week: Troy The Maker Bob’s Pick of the Week: Mark Rober’s Engineering Course Jimmy’s Pick of the Week: Justine Silver

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0:00.0

So Jimmy, you're eager to talk about your pants.

0:04.0

So let's talk about your pants.

0:06.0

My pants.

0:07.0

Oh yeah, I was talking about my podcast.

0:10.0

No, the pants are well underway that being made this week. It's been a struggle.

0:14.6

I'm not, every time I talk about it, I might have to preface that with it's been a struggle.

0:18.6

It's been a lot of work behind the scenes. I mean the biggest problem is me and my business partner.

0:27.0

He said no immediately and I said, well let's just give this a try.

0:30.6

And now here we are almost two years later and there's been a lot of struggles a lot of arguments

0:34.9

It got to a point where I was like we could end this right now

0:38.5

I'm okay with it. I have no emotional attachment to it and he's like know what, we've gone far enough, it looks

0:43.5

cool, it's impressive, people want to know what you're up to, let's go forward with it. So for branding

0:48.1

purposes, we did it. We sold 200 pairs and maybe 200 change pairs and then

0:54.8

then 50 25 jackets and then

0:57.8

an extra 50 average sizes that will be available so

1:01.7

We are making that many and that's it and then I'm hoping

1:07.6

to find somebody to take over the licensing. I do not want to manufacture pants.

1:12.1

I know Alec is doing it. I can only imagine the struggles he went through. I assume he hired somebody to deal with it like I did. Christine has handled it from beginning to end. Christine used to work for Ralph

1:25.1

Laren, making jeans for Ralph Laren. She used to have her own gene company, which

1:28.8

was fairly successful for a minute, and that's all she's ever done is work on jeans that's why her

1:34.2

Instagram name is the godmother of Denham and when she met me she really didn't have

1:39.1

too much of a social media present she's a few years older than me and she didn't

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